Model Analytical Paragraph
Week 1 model. A short paragraph with claim, evidence, technique, effect, and link, plus sentence starters.
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Year 7 English • Novel Study Unit Pack
Coraline
A five-week, 25-resource unit built from the resource audit. It combines 19 existing Coraline assets with six print-ready builds. No files were renamed or moved to assemble this pack.
Character and Conflict Map
Week 2 organiser. Desires, obstacles, choices, and change for Coraline and the other characters.
Open resource →Theme Tracker
Week 3 organiser. Track a theme across the novel, log evidence, and write a synthesis sentence.
Open resource →Analytical Essay Rubric
Week 4 and Week 5 rubric. Five criteria, four levels, marking guide, and peer feedback.
Open resource →Coraline Revision Quest
Week 5 team game. Five stages, 15 questions, answer key, and a final challenge.
Open resource →End-of-Unit Analytical Essay
Week 5 assessment. Three prompts, planning frame, evidence bank, and submission checklist.
Open resource →Audit evidence. Novel Study has 48 confirmed assets, the largest Year 7 unit. This pack schedules 19 usable Coraline assets and leaves the full novel, speech resources, teacher link lists, cross-listed design challenges, and duplicate PDF exports out of the core sequence.
Week 1 - Entering the gothic world
| Slot | Resource | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Direct instruction | Coraline Gothic Quest PDF | Confirmed |
| Slide deck | Lesson 1 - Language Techniques PPTX | Confirmed |
| Practice | Coraline Theme Analysis Worksheet PDF | Confirmed |
| Practice | Student Workbook - Exploring the Other World PDF | Confirmed |
| Text model | Model analytical paragraph | Build |
Week 2 - Character, voice, and conflict
| Slot | Resource | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Slide deck | Lesson 2 - Narrative Conventions PPTX | Confirmed |
| Organiser | 5-Paragraph Essay Template - Conflict in Coraline PDF | Confirmed |
| Analysis | Workbook - Names, Identity, and Discovery PDF | Confirmed |
| Analysis | THE BELDAM'S REGRET - A Symbolic Artifact Toolkit PDF | Confirmed |
| Organiser | Character and conflict map | Build |
Week 3 - Themes, symbols, and evidence
| Slot | Resource | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Vocabulary | VOCAB IN CORALINE PDF | Confirmed |
| Analysis | BEYOND THE BRICK WALL - The Dark Ancestry of Coraline PDF | Confirmed |
| Practice | Coraline 5-Paragraph Essay Prep - 50 Questions PDF | Confirmed |
| Slide deck | Coraline Gothic Quest PPTX - visual review | Review |
| Organiser | Theme tracker | Build |
Week 4 - Building the analytical essay
| Slot | Resource | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Slide deck | Forging Coraline PPTX - visual review | Review |
| Slide deck | Individual vs Swarm PPTX - visual review | Review |
| Slide deck | The Bravery Blueprint PPTX - visual review | Review |
| Slide deck | The Coraline Blueprint PPTX - visual review | Review |
| Rubric | Analytical essay rubric | Build |
Week 5 - Revise and assess
| Slot | Resource | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Slide deck | The Coraline Codex PPTX - visual review | Review |
| Slide deck | The Shadow-Stitcher's Forge PPTX - visual review | Review |
| Slide deck | The TOEAC Quest PPTX - visual review | Review |
| Game | Coraline Revision Quest | Build |
| Assessment | End-of-unit analytical essay | Summative |
Build queue
| Resource | Purpose | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Model analytical paragraph | Week 1 model and sentence starters | Build |
| Character and conflict map | Week 2 character and conflict analysis | Build |
| Theme tracker | Week 3 theme and evidence tracking | Build |
| Analytical essay rubric | Week 4 planning and peer review | Build |
| Coraline Revision Quest | Week 5 retrieval and revision game | Build |
| End-of-unit analytical essay | Week 5 summative assessment | Summative |
Before you teach
- Do not schedule the full novel from the library. The copy is a 136-page scan with almost no text layer and needs a rights review. Use a class set or a licensed digital copy.
- Review the eight visual slide decks before use. Several have little or no extractable text and may be image-led.
- Normalise US spelling in the Gothic Lexicon, theme worksheet, essay prep, and workbooks.
- Do not schedule Coraline resource links, CORALINE speech TOPICS, the vocal drill cards, or the rhetorical cheat sheet. They are not novel-study resources.
- Exclude the Young Change Agents design challenges. They are cross-listed by year level, not by text.
- Use the 5-Paragraph Essay Template as a starting point only. Pair it with the model paragraph and rubric so students move beyond a fixed formula.
- Students should use their own copy of the novel for quotations. Do not reproduce long extracts.
Assessment plan
| Checkpoint | Task | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Week 1 | Gothic conventions | Annotated extract and analytical paragraph |
| Week 2 | Character and conflict | Completed map and analytical paragraph |
| Week 3 | Theme and evidence | Theme tracker with quotations |
| Week 4 | Essay plan | Thesis, three body-paragraph plans, rubric check |
| Week 5 | Final essay | Analytical essay plus rubric |
Source: read-only audit of 3,087 resources, October 2026. This pack schedules 19 existing assets and six builds. No resource files were renamed or moved.